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CFO outlines $17–$21 minimum-wage options; $17 scenario would cost roughly $1.2M for impacted employees
Summary
CFO Miss Harris presented models raising the county minimum wage to $17, $19 or $21 and said the $17 option would raise pay for about 240 employees and cost about $1.2 million including benefits and compression adjustments.
CFO Miss Harris presented three modeled scenarios for raising the county's minimum wage and described the composition and fiscal impacts of each option. "Of the 372 employees that would be impacted by the rate increase, there are 240 that right now are below the $17 an hour," Harris said, and she explained that the $17 scenario includes compression and benefit costs in its estimate.
Harris showed the $17/hour scenario would require raising roughly 240 positions to that level and estimated the budgetary impact for that cohort at approximately $1.2 million when benefits and compression are included; higher tiers would affect more staff and cost more. Councilors asked for breakdowns by full-time versus part-time and requested an updated salary-band comparison and a compensation/class study to better align pay bands with market and internal equity.
Nut graf: Council members generally expressed interest in prioritizing full-time staff for pay increases and asked staff to prepare more detailed counts and comparisons before making a policy decision; no change to the county pay floor was adopted at the meeting.
Staff committed to return with a clearer head-count breakdown (full-time, part-time, seasonal) and longer-term recommendations such as pursuing a classification and compensation study to address pay compression."
